Alan Murray, Executive Editor of the Wall Street Journal, moderates the panel of INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 9, 2011: What Can We Learn from the Past in Designing the Future? Part 1 of 4 with Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus...

Cathy's Triumph part 3/4: The video is a personal and inspiring story of media mogul Cathy Hughes, the founder of the largest African American-owned media company in the world, Radio One. The video highlights her journey as an...

Many students have been taught that prepositions are never left behind a sentence or a question. However, there is no rule which states this. There are some cases where we need to put a preposition at the end of a sentence or a...

Welcome to our video series titled "New Economic Thinking." The series will feature dozens of conversations with leading economists on the most important issues facing economics and the global economy today.



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The financial crisis that ran from 2007 to 2009 has been called a "Minsky Moment," meaning it offered a much-needed reminder to all economists of Hyman Minsky's neglected dictum that "capitalism is essentially a financial system."...

A University of Florida team is starting to gather real-time data on the impact of waves and rising water on bridges during hurricanes. Unlike studies that rely on tests in wave laboratories, this research will use data...

New paper proposes megalodon may have gone extinct due to supernova explosion

Learn how to pronounce 'university' in this word of the week. Look out for the Flap T!

Dr. Bryan Ripley Crandall is Director of the Connecticut Writing Project and Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions at Fairfield University. His scholarly work includes the teaching of writing,...

In this week's episode we discover a protein that could someday eliminate malaria, lear about microbes battling it out in Antarctica, explore super Wi-Fi that uses UHF channels and virtually unwrap a 1500-year-old scroll.

Scientists have found that the flu vaccine is less effective for people with excess weight. <br/>

Rebekah Modrak is a writer and interventionist artist whose artworks resist consumer culture. Re Made Co. (remadeco.org) poses as an online “company” to recreate actual company Best Made Co. (seller of $350 luxury hand-painted axes) by...

Michael A. Pope works in Department of Defense schools for military families. He is a middle school educator at Zama Middle High School, Yamato, Japan, with multiple certification in middle school Science, History, Mathematics, Gifted...

Matt is an animatronics expert, who works on the Star Wars films. In his spare time he builds things like this hexapod robot. He explains some of the challenges he faced in building it. This video could be used to prompt a lesson on...

Voltage to Electric Field in Three Dimensions

New research from the University of Tasmania has found that seabirds are becoming smaller in size due to their consumption of plastic.

How does diversity arise? Does it make a system more productive? How does it impact the overall strength of a system? Does it make a system prone to large events? These are some of the questions Scott Page, professor of complex systems,...

In NSF Science Now 59, we explore using virtual reality for memory recall; teenage emotion overload, and finally, we examine the role dopamine plays in forming episodic memories. Check it out!

In this week’s episode we explore the Earth’s inner-inner core, spot fires, haptic technology for touchscreens, and finally, we examine the recent water contamination in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

This week’s episode of NSF Science Now explores sea turtle locomotion by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, new images from the Gemini North telescope of comet ISON, how researchers at the University of Illinois at...

In this week’s episode of NSF Science Now, we explore Arctic walrus habitats, Cave2, pandas and, finally, algae and biofuels.

Christine Beck holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing degree from Southern Connecticut State University and is the author of Blinding Light (Grayson Books 2013), I’m Dating Myself, (Dancing Girl Press 2015) and Stirred, Not...

Connecticut Poet Laureate, Author, Professor Emerita



“Margaret Gibson has created a voice and an art that connect the sensuous experience of the physical world with the inner life,” Pattiann Rogers has written. ...

Some students at Texas Woman’s University have won a NASA-sponsored design competition aimed at solving problems related to space travel. The students tackled a problem that astronauts have a lot–lower back pain. They created a shirt to...